I was also a bit surprised that the Chinchilla numbers and tables don't reproduce and that there are calculation bugs in the paper (e.g. the FLOPs calculation in the paper is wrong), especially because the paper has been so impactful in the field. Maybe people are focusing on the broad themes of the paper (e.g. scale model and data approx. in tandem) and just roughly interpolating the main Figure, without sweating the details. The corresponding authors responded very kindly at first and I was able to bring the results closer but now they went dark. Still hoping to make things match, if others in LLM space can spot any issues in my own reproduction please let me know.